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Two Broward state legislators are citing last week’s parasailing accident in Panama City Beach as evidence to renew their push for new government regulation of the industry. State Sen. Maria Sachs, a Boca Raton Democrat who represents part of Broward, and state Rep. Gwyndolen “Gwyn” Clarke-Reed, D-Deerfield Beach, unsuccessfully sought passage of legislation to regulate parasailing providers during the 2013 legislative session. They failed. Now they’re pointing to a July 1 accident in which two teenage girls were seriously hurt in a parasailing crash in Panama City Beach. News reports said the cord tethering their parasail snapped free, causing them to careen...

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